Bill James on Ryne Sandberg
Bill James participated in an online chat at USAToday.com on Wednesday. One person asked him his take on Ryne Sandberg’s not being elected to the Hall-of-Fame in the last election. James wrote:
He’s obviously a better second baseman than several of the guys in there. Fifteen years ago the Hall of Fame was short of second basemen, but in the last 15 years they have been electing second basemen by the bargeload. Its pretty silly to say that Red Schoendienst was a better player than Ryne Sandberg.